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Wuthering Heights 1847 Emily Bronte 1818-1848

Themes <ul><li>Catherine and Heathcliff’s passion for one another seems to be the center of Wuthering Heights. </li></ul>...

<ul><li>The book is actually structured around two parallel love stories, </li></ul><ul><li>the first half of the novel ce...

<ul><li>In contrast to the first, the latter tale ends happily, restoring peace and order to Wuthering Heights and Thrushc...

<ul><li>Catherine and Heathcliff’s love is based on their shared perception that they are identical. </li></ul><ul><li>Cat...

<ul><li>Given that Catherine and Heathcliff’s love is based upon their refusal to change over time. </li></ul><ul><li>The ...

<ul><li>Ultimately, Wuthering Heights presents a vision of life as a process of change, and celebrates this process over...

Gothic Elements <ul><li>The novel includes Gothic elements, with the haunting sequences </li></ul><ul><li>Heathcliff </li...

Architectonic Structure <ul><li>The novel has a classic pattern which is recurrent in litearture since Greek tragedy </li>...

The Precariousness of Social Class <ul><li>As members of the gentry, the Earnshaws and the Lintons occupy a somewhat preca...

<ul><li>At the top of British society was ? </li></ul><ul><li>the royalty, </li></ul><ul><li>followed by ? </li></ul><ul>...

THE GENTRY <ul><li>The gentry held a very fragile social position even if they had servants and often large estates. </li>...

<ul><li>A discussion of whether or not a man was really a gentleman would consider such questions as: </li></ul><ul><li>ho...

<ul><li>Catherine’s decision to marry Edgar so that she will be </li></ul><ul><li>“ the greatest woman of the neighborhoo...

The Lintons <ul><li>The Lintons are relatively firm in their gentry status but nonetheless take great pains to prove this ...

The Earnshaws <ul><li>The Earnshaws, on the other hand, rest on much shakier ground socially. </li></ul><ul><li>They do n...

Motifs Doubles <ul><li>Brontë organizes her novel by arranging its elements - characters, places, and themes into pairs....

<ul><li>Catherine and young Catherine are both remarkably similar and strikingly different. </li></ul><ul><li>The two hous...

Heathcliff <ul><li>He is mysterious </li></ul><ul><li>(dark skin, curly hair – almost like a foreigner. </li></ul><ul><li>...

Heathcliff <ul><li>In contact with elements </li></ul><ul><li>He’s passionate </li></ul><ul><li>He has sexual power of att...

Symbols <ul><li>Symbols are objects, characters, figures, or colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts </li>...

Moors <ul><li>Wide, wild expanses, high but somewhat soggy, and thus infertile. </li></ul><ul><li>Moorland cannot be cu...

Ghosts <ul><li>Ghosts appear throughout Wuthering Heights, as they do in most other works of Gothic fiction. </li></ul...

The Conflict between Nature and Culture <ul><li>In Wuthering Heights, Brontë constantly plays nature and culture agai...

<ul><li>Correspondingly, the house where they live Wuthering Heights comes to symbolize a similar wildness. </li></ul><ul>...

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